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| Keywords: 1794 Laurie and Whittle Map of Poland and Lithuania after Second Partition - Geographicus - Poland-lauriewhittle-1794.jpg This important 1794 map by Thomas Kitchin depicts the Kingdom of Poland during the brief transitional period between the second and third partitions Covers from Brandenburg to Russia and from the Gulf of Livonia to Moldova and Hungary including all of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania parts of Prussia Russia Livonia Hungary Germany and Austria This map depicts Poland in 1794 immediately following the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 By the mid 18th century Poland due to an inefficient and corrupt internal bureaucracy had lost much of its autonomy to its aggressive and powerful neighbors Russia Austria and Prussia The First Partition occurred in 1772 with Prussia occupying Poland's long coveted western territories Austria seizing Galicia and Russia taking part of Livonia In the aftermath of the First Partition the Second Partition was almost inevitable Poland allied with Prussia to thwart the ambitions of Russia in the East This along with a number of other factors lead to the War in Defense of the Constitution between Poland and Russia Largely abandoned by their Prussian allies Poland could not hope to stand against the powerful Russian military Poland's defeat resulted in the loss of nearly 50 of its remaining territory to Russia and Prussia who signed an accord in 1793 One year after this map was made in 1795 the Third Partition of Poland would dissolve what remained of the reduced Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ending Polish all autonomy in the 18th century All text is in English This map was drawn in London by Thomas Kitchin based on an earlier map of the region by D'Anville Published by Laurie and Whittle in 1794 from their office at 53 Fleet Street London England 1794 dated Size in 26 19 5 object history credit line accession number Poland-lauriewhittle-1794 Kitchin Thomas <i>Kitchin's General Atlas describing the Whole Universe being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert with many improvements by other eminent geographers engraved on Sixty-Two plates comprising Thirty Seven maps </i> Laurie Whittle London 1797 Geographicus-source PD-Art-100 Old maps of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1794 maps Partitions of Poland Thomas Kitchin English language maps of Europe | ||||
